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MPs seek caste-wise collection of data

J. Balaji

Present plea to Union Home Minister

’Centre will have fair idea of progress of each community’
Memorandum signed by 170 MPs from different parties

NEW DELHI: A delegation of MPs belonging to various parties led by Pattali Makkal Katchi leader and Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss met Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil here over the weekend and presented a memorandum seeking caste-wise collection of details in the 2011 Census.

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The memorandum, signed by 170 MPs, said such collection of details would provide data on the literacy, health and economic status of each community so that the Government could have a fair idea of the progress of each community.

PMK Parliamentary Party leader M. Ramadoss told The Hindu that Mr. Patil had promised to consider the demand and look into the Constitutional aspects involved in ordering the collection of such details.

The delegates included Union Minister of State for Railways R. Velu, Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party leader K. Yerran Naidu, senior MPs A. Krishnasamy (DMK), J. M. Haroon Rasheed (Congress), Ram Gopal Yadav (SP) and Devendra Prasad Yadav (RJD).

The PMK founder S. Ramadoss had said recently that “caste-wise Census can help the Government implement the policy of reservation in the private sector too”. Besides it would facilitate cross-clarification with various social, economic, cultural and demographic characteristics and thus provide a wealth of data on the levels achieved by each community in various indices like literacy and education, work characteristics, age at marriage, fertility, infant and child mortality and death rate.

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